Posts Tagged ‘Ashdown’

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There will be Blood

by admin on November 1, 2010 at 12:00 am
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Wychwolf page 25 for details of story select transcript

A new start, a new job… working on the pc is proving more tricky than anticipated. Photoshop is doing some weird trapping around outlines. I’m not sure how to get past it. .. though my heart says buy a mac.

So blood everywhere, a severely damaged team, and a mad doctor on the loose.

Things are warming up.

Art stuff, sketched in Daler sketch book with 0.5mm pencil,, scanned in using my canonscan lide 25 scanner, then inked and coloured in photoshop elements.

I think I may try to get back to inking on paper, whilst I work out issues with PS.

Soundtrack: Minus by Beck, Fall away by The fray and Conqueeeessst by the White Stripes.

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Fetch!

by admin on October 25, 2010 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic
Wychwolf page 25 for details of story select transcript

… and were back.

The day job I’ve had for the past six years ends on Friday, and it’s caused a lot of change in the way I lead my life. I’m very lucky to have a ten month contract with an excellent team of extremely talented and pleasant people to tide me over… but things won’t be the same.

Probably the biggest change for the comic is that I’ve got to learn how to work in Windows 7, as my macbook pro, wasn’t really mine,and has to go back to the firm I’m leaving.

So Windows 7 does things differently, I’ve not got any of the fonts I use, and need to make a visit to BLAMBOT to sort that out.

Photoshop elelments works differently…I’ve got to learn to deselect stuff and I’ve got to get used to the most random filesystem I’ve come across. On the positive side the drivers I just downloaded for my wacom seem to integrate the tablet really well at an OS level.

For the story hopefully things will be back to their old fashioned sepia by next Monday,once I’ve worked out where all the brushes I need are.

Rob

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Blam

by admin on August 16, 2010 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic, Transcript
wych wolf page23 see transcript for detail

When in doubt, add a bit of action. Over at the ten ton studio, this weeks sketch challenge is the defenders… a superhero team which includes the Hulk, so I read a Hulk story, and basically it was 30 pages of stuff being shot, and smashed up… which is considerably easier to write than dialogue.

Normal service may be resumed next week.

Drawing stuff: Staedtler 0.5mm pigment pen, and COPIC markers on light weight watercolour paper.

Soundtrack: the click click of knitting, the dull sound of foopballists on the telly.

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Tip Top Top Secret

by admin on August 2, 2010 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic, Transcript
wych wolf page21 see transcript for detail

Words, words words…

A brief respite from the fun and frolics down in the crypt, with all those werewolf things, and psychotropic drugs. Our man Eric is the “star in a reasonably priced car” for the next few weeks, as he investigates the airman, so cruelly mauled. The first frame of this strip is a photo from Ashdown Forest, on the edge of an MOD training ground. It’s one of the things that sparked the ideas for he story in the first place.

Art Stuff: Staedtler 0.3 and 0.7mm pigment pens on DELETER Manga paper.

Soundtrack: The bubbling mud sound of appalling DAB, leading to irritation and silence, broken only by the munching of apples, and the buzz of countryside insects.

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Din dins

by admin on July 26, 2010 at 12:00 am
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page 20 of the Wych wolf story, see transcript for full description

It’s a cliffhanger.. trapped in a secret underground laboratory with a Zombie dog, and a Zombie/mummy/werewolf, Broadstairs raddled by psychotic drugs, and concussed, and armed only with a cricket bat. What will befall our plucky protagonists…

You’ll have to wait and see.

Artwork was all digital this week, usual stuff, little wacom bamboo tablet, and photoshop elelments 4 for mac.

Soundtrack: Macbreak weekly, bleating on about iphone 4 issues. Don’t have one, can’t afford one, just ordered an htc wildfire.

Enjoy the sunshine

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Life imitating art

by admin on May 30, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Blog

I’ve just been for a walk up on Ashdown Forest, right near the Wych Cross crossroads, and the MOD training area. We stopped for a cup of tea by the side of the road, and an old Rover like the one I put in the last WychWolf strip, pulled up at the side of the road…

Felt a bit strange.

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